| SPARKLER | Diamond or similar |
| FLAW | A gust or squall; a breach or crack; or, a defect/imperfection, such as one in a diamond or other gem (4) |
| WATER | Wavy lustrous sheen on moire taffeta and some silk and satin; or, the quality of the brilliance or clarity of a diamond or other gemstone (5) |
| INFIELD | Area of a sports ground such as a cricket oval or baseball diamond; or, formerly, arable land around or near a farmstead, kept under tillage (7) |
| SPARKLE | Word for glitter, an emission of fiery particles, scintillation, vivacity, the lustre of a diamond or the appearance of effervescence or fizz in champagne or pop (7) |
| NEEDLES | Bodkins; diamond- or sapphire tipped styli for playing records; etching tools; pine tree leaves; or, pointers on compasses or dials (7) |
| RECORD | LP, 45, 78 or other disc played by means of a diamond- or sapphire-tipped stylus; or, any unsurpassed best-ever performance/occurrence (6) |
| SOLITAIRE | From the Latin for "alone", a game such as pegboard or patience for one player; an extinct swan-sized flightless pigeon; a single diamond or other gem in a setting; or, a recluse (9) |
| IMITATION | An act of mimicry; a caricature; or, a copy or replica of something, such as a diamond or an original painting (9) |
| LOZENGE | A rhombus or diamond; or, a pastille/troche or heraldic charge in the shape of said geometric figure (7) |
| ORE | Rock from which a valuable metal or mineral, such as diamond or gold, can be extracted profitably; or, a poetic word for a precious metal (3) |
| RHOMB | From Greek for "bull-roarer", "magic wheel" or "spinning top", a quadrilateral also called a diamond or a kite; or, a lozenge-shaped thing (5) |
| SPARK | Informal word for an electrician or a small diamond; or, the author whose final novel was The Finishing School (5) |
| CRYSTAL | From the Greek meaning "ice" or "frost", an array of atoms with an ordered internal structure and plane faces, such as diamond or quartz (7) |
| LUSTRE | A metallic pottery glaze; or, the manner in which a crystal, diamond or other mineral reflects light (6) |
| STONE | The kernel of an apricot, cherry, peach, plum or other drupe fruit; a gem such as a diamond; or, a rock as a weight prior to its standardisation as an imperial unit of 14lbs (5) |
| PRECIOUS | Word for something valuable or treasured, such as gold, a diamond or Tolkien's "One Ring" (8) |
| BEZEL | Word for the sloping cutting edge of a chisel, thus an oblique face of a cut diamond; or, a grooved collet in which said gem or a watch crystal is set (5) |
| SPARKS | Fiery particles as a result of welding, short circuits or iron striking flint; nickname for an electrician or ship's radio operator; glass-cutting diamonds; or, sprightly people (6) |
| SELMA | Diamond or Alabama |
